Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism

Provides a comprehensive history of the various waves of feminism so appropriate for beginners to the areaBrings the history completely up to date, even pointing towards future feminism so also will appeal to academics/researchersLooks at a wide variety of literary forms so will appeal to people working across the whole of literary studies (novels, poetry, drama, life writing etc)Looks at literary “classics” – commonly taught on courses and familiar to most readers – but also extends the canon to lesser known writers and texts which will appeal to academics and broaden their knowledge